Lee, 23, from Rancho Cordova, California, who was reported unaccounted for Tuesday morning while the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) was operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

a region along the Los Angeles County coast that juts into the Pacific Ocean and is home to the affluent Rancho Palos Verdes community. It sits about 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

The Palos Verdes Peninsula is known for its frequent landslides. A coastal community in Southern California is shifting downslope -- and closer to the Pacific Ocean -- at a rapid rate, according ...

According to data captured by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory using airborne radar, a portion of the Palos Verdes Peninsula is slipping towards the Pacific Ocean as much as 4 inches per week.

Whale-watching tour operators encountered the mass gathering of cetaceans while looking for migrating gray whales Sarah Kuta A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one ...

Scientists on a submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a 1-foot-long sea creature with 24 “feet” and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Several miles below the ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean will entirely disappear. Not from any environmental catastrophe ...

between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The Indian Navy has deployed its guided-missile destroyer INS Mumbai for the exercise scheduled from January 16 to 24 and led by the French Carrier ...

Pacific allies don’t usually air their dirty laundry in public. But a rare on-the-record dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the poor and isolated island nation ...

A Fiji government statement said Rabuka will advocate for an "Ocean of Peace", referring to Fiji's policy opposing an arms race in the Pacific. "I look forward to discussing issues of common ...